It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.